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Jason Dillon

Don't Sell Cheap U.S. Coal to Asia - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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coal energy trade US-China economics health pollution

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  • pollution contributed to 1.2 million premature deaths in 2010, according to the Global Burden of Disease study, published in The Lancet, a British medical journal.
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      Jason Dillon on 13 Feb 14
       
      This study might be a good source.
  • Faustian bargain
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      Jason Dillon on 13 Feb 14
       
      What does it mean to say the US is arranging a "Faustian bargain" with China? Is this depiction of China fair?
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  • Michael Riordan, a physicist, is the author of “The Hunting of the Quark.”
Jason Dillon

Into Africa: China's Wild Rush - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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china africa trade migration

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  • given skepticism about China from Africa’s own increasingly vibrant civil society, which is demanding to know what China’s billions of dollars in infrastructure building, mineral extraction and land acquisition mean for the daily lives and political rights of ordinary Africans.
  • at the start of a four-country African trip, Prime Minister Li Keqiang acknowledged “growing pains” in the relationship, and the need to “assure our African friends in all seriousness that China will never pursue a colonialist path like some countries did, or allow colonialism, which belongs to the past, to reappear in Africa.”
  • China takes our primary goods and sells us manufactured ones. This was also the essence of colonialism.”
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  • In Ghana, an estimated 50,000 new migrants, most of whom are said to have hailed from a single county in southern China, showed up recently to conduct environmentally devastating gold mining. This set off a popular outcry that forced the Ghanaian government to respond, resulting in arrests of miners, many of whom are being expelled to China.
  • Kenya’s Constitution insists on “intergenerational equity,” but also requires that “public money be used in a prudent and responsible manner.” Mr. Ndii asked whether the deal with the Chinese was consistent with either provision.
    • Jason Dillon
      Jason Dillon on 17 May 14
       
      Consider all the ways we can interpret this phrase "intergenerational equity": in China, in Africa, in the US (given the projections about the job market and standard of living for young adults compared to the baby boomers).
  • From Zaire to Equatorial Guinea to Rwanda, the West clearly has its own deep and insufficiently acknowledged history of doing much the same.
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